This episode of On Story, filmmaker Jason Reitman discusses his
work from Thank You For Smoking to his Amazon original series,
Casual. In the second half of our program, Emmy Award® winning
television writer and producer Jack Burditt describes life in the
writer’s room from Frasier and Mad About You to 30 Rock and The
Mindy Project.

Jason Reitman made his feature film debut with the 2006 Sundance
hit Thank You For Smoking. He earned Academy Award® nominations for
best director for the films Juno and Up in the Air, the latter of
which earned him a Golden Globe and a WGA Award for Best
Screenplay. Jason Reitman’s other films include Young Adult, Labor
Day, and Men, Women and Children as well as the Oscar® winning
film, Whiplash for which her served as executive producer. Reitman
co-created the Amazon original series, Casual and he’s currently
slated to write and direct an adaptation of Dan Santat’s Caldecott
Award wining children’s book Beekle.